General Discussion

No, it doesn't. First, changing constitution would be impossible. Two, even if you did all this it would just make right wing states get even more extreme (there's nothing in the plan that would let central government protect human and constitutional rights in red states).

Unfortunately US political system wasn't designed in a way that let's it change with time. To introduce big reforms like this it would pretty much have to collapse and be rebuild from scratch. Realistic way to make things better is simply organizing locally to inform/educate people about progressive/socialist policies, electing moderate/progressive politicians to take over Democratic party and simply creating a political force that can actually oppose Republicans instead of trying to comprise all the time.

No so long ago it was generally accepted that Republicans will always be a minority party. They managed to take over the government though smart PR, well organized (dis)information campaigns and long term, bottom-up work to take over institutions. Now Democrats have to do the same.

Abolish senate and scotus? Wtf is this?

Income tax and senate are important.

It really isn't possible to abolish the Supreme Court without undoing the constitution entirely. You do that, and you aren't fixing things, you're starting over. And yeah, in theory you could amend the constitution to do it, but trying to make that happen is the same as undoing it in reality.

I'm not saying that's an invalid choice (viva la revolution!), I'm just saying that it is a different concept entirely.

But yeah, if you just changed the first one on that list (which could be done without drastic measures), it would fix 90% of the rest.

Where do you get the money for UBI if income tax is abolished?

Leave income tax (VAT is useful but ultimately a regressive tax in that it relies on consumption and therefore disproportionately affects the poor).

Leave the Supreme Court but add term limits-I like 13 years because it keeps the chances that any one person will be able to transform the court very small.

Add in universal pre-k and post-secondary education. Pre-k in particular benefits society at large because it teaches children how to interact with peers in an equitable fashion.

Yes yes no no yes yes yes no

*Undo citizens united

No. What kind of crazy shit is this?
Income tax is one of the only tools that could be used to combat inequality

Only if you want to maintain the capitalist status quo by making sure the population is just comfortable enough not to turn on those few who actually benefit from it, while the rest of us scramble for these kinds of bare minimum, not even all-our-human-rights-being-met scraps, some even thanking our overlords for their generosity as they ~~piss~~ trickle down all over us.

• Star Voting
• Voting is a national federal holiday
• Universal mail in voting
• UBI
• Medicare for all And things start getting better from there.

The supreme court should probably be a random selection of judges from the lower courts, rather than a set of jerks. Maybe they serve a short term, or are selected for each case.

Not sure why abolishing income tax is on here. That's usually a right wing fever dream.

There's other stuff that would probably help, too.

• Enforce monopoly laws.
• Break up existing orgs that are too much.
• Nationalize ISPs.
• Do.. something.. about police. Just don't let it devolve into outright private police. Probably need to unbundle all the responsibilities the police currently have into separate institutions, increase licensing requirements, increase accountability. I don't have a fully baked answer, but if the state doesn't provide an answer for "Someone broke into my house" then the private market will, and that's probably going to be worse.

• Yes.
• Yes.
• Basically because influence in the senate isn't scaled by population? I can get behind that. Any other reasons?
• Why? (Aside from that it's stuffed with Trump appointees and insurrectionists right now, I mean.)
• Hadn't heard of this before, but what little I'm seeing about it sounds good.
• Obviously.
• I'm definitely not up on this one.
• Maybe, but only if we introduce something else that'll have rich people actually paying taxes (for real). Otherwise, reform income tax.

And ones you've neglected:

• Abolish corporate personhood
• Wealth tax
• UBI
• Constitutionally-protected reproductive rights
• Abolish 2A
• Abolish private prisons
• Abolish forced labor

And if we're allowed to include things probably well outside the Overton Window:

• Abolish private property, prison, cops, military, borders, employment, the profit motive, corporations
• To each according to need

That's just off the top of my head.

VAT is regressive, disproportionally taxing those who have to spend more of their income.

An income tax with a wide untaxed bracket and steeper rates for higher brackets would be more equitable.

The Supreme Court serves a purpose, but is being coopted by political interests and effectively controlled by the Senate, so changes are needed (e.g. eliminating the Senate, moving to elections, setting term limits).

Everything else is reasonable and necessary for a functioning democracy.